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Samsung Magician cloning 840 msata to 970 evo not cloning as OS , just storage

oliverdog — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 21:59:58 GMT

Samsung Magician(Data migration) cloning 840 msata to 970 evo not cloning as OS , just storage

cloning windows 10 os from my samsung 840 msata 1tb to 970 evo pcie 1tb using a m2 nvme to usb case.

The cloning process works but the target drive only has files but not the operating system. You see there is 3 different drive letters on my source disc.

Any ideas?

thanks Gregg

Re: Samsung Magician cloning 840 msata to 970 evo not cloning as OS , just storage

ddaniel51 — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 03:26:14 GMT

I think you have 2 strikes against you.

One, Magician does not play well across a USB connection for nvme drives.

Two, I don't think Magician is smart enough to convert an MBR/BIOS based drive to a booting GPT/UEFI NVME SSD.

So, what you are getting is Magicians best attempt by ignoring the OS booting partition and transferring the data partition it recognizes as non booting MBR.

Personally I use Acronis True Image for my cloning and backup software and am very happy with it.

Not sure if it will do what you are attempting though they do have a free trial available.

Re: Samsung Magician cloning 840 msata to 970 evo not cloning as OS , just storage

oliverdog — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 06:21:28 GMT

Thanks for the answer , I am now going to clone the msata to a sata ssd mounted in the computer then reverse that to clone to the nvme ssd